Games & Apps(.apk files) How to install from your SD card

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Games & Apps(.apk files) How to install from your SD card

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Games & Apps(.apk files)How to install from your SD card

Your phone does not need to be "rooted" to do this.

This will show you how to take a game/app you have put on your SD card and to install it to your phone.

You will need to go into your setting and allow apps from unknown sources to run.
You find that at: settings/applications/unknown sources.


1. Connect your Android phone to your computer and "mount" it.
2. Create a folder onto your SD card and name it what ever you want. You can create as many as you want, I have 2 and have named one Apps and the other Games to seperate the two.
3. Copy the APK files to which ever folders they should be sorted into
4. "unmount" your memory card once tranferring the apps/games
5. Download an application called EStrongs File Explorer (or a file explorer app like it) from the Android Market and install.
6. Open EStrongs File Explorer, you will see the folders that you have created on your memory card. Select the folder you want to access
7. Select the APK you want to install and you are done. You can now access that application from the menu.
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